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  • Muslims in India

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_261111/India_Muslims_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111126.mp3{/audio} Download An Indian court recently released seven Muslim youth on bail who were accused of carrying out bomb blasts that killed 37 people in the Western state of Mahar...
  • India Army Demands Laws that Give It Immunity to Kill in Kashmir Stay

    {audio}images/podcast/Data_191111/India_Kashmir_Law_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111119.mp3{/audio} Download The Armed Forces Special Powers Act is one of India’s most controversial laws.It gives Indian security forces sweeping powers to operate in an area wher...
  • Witch-hunting Continues in Modern India

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_191111/India_Witch_Hunt_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111119.mp3{/audio} Download The last execution of a women accused of being a witch in Europe took place in the 18th century. But in the tribal and rural areas of Rajashtan,...
  • Indian Media Too Free?

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_121111/India_Press_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111112.mp3{/audio} Download India’s Press Council, a media watchdog, says many electronic and print media outlets in the country are behaving highly irresponsibly and has called for str...
  • Truth Behind Beautiful Indian Embroidered Sarees

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_121111/India_Embroidery_Kids_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111112.mp3{/audio} Download The United States and other Western countries are planning to tailor their import policies to refuse products made by child labor in India.This could...
  • Seven Billion Humans on Earth ‘Tremendous Pressure on Resources’

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_051111/India_Population_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111105.mp3{/audio} Download This week the world reached a new population milestone- 7 billion people on earth. To mark the occasion, the United Nations declared a child born in Phi...
  • Getting Closer to a Polio-Free India

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_291011/India_Polio_Free_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111029.mp3{/audio} Download India has been polio-free for 9 months this year. This is the longest period since the Global Polio Eradication initiative was launched in 1988. In In...
  • Pluralism in the Park

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_291011/Indonesia_Tolerance_Park_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111029.mp3{/audio} Download With hundreds of malls that offer play equipment for children, many Jakartan parents choose air-conditioned convenience over the park. But over ...
  • TV-Radio Ads Urge Pregnant Women in Cambodia to go to Health Clinics

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_291011/Cambodia_Pregnant_Women_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111029.mp3{/audio} Download Cambodia's maternal mortality rate is the second-highest in East Asia. Every year, an estimated 2,000 women die during pregnancy, delivery and af...
  • Chinese Pyramids and the Lost Civilization of the Western Xia

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_291011/China_Pyramids_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111029.mp3{/audio} Download Think Egypt, and images of pharaohs and pyramids immediately spring to mind. However, the ancient structures are not unique to Egypt. There are massive p...
  • Nepal’s First Sex Shop

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_291011/Nepal_Sex_Shop_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111029.mp3{/audio} Download In Nepal, abortion is legal. Prostitution is illegal, but widely available in the capital in different forms such as in massage parlors. And same sex se...
  • Workers Rise Up Against Giant Gold and Copper in Papua

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_221011/Indonesia_Freeport_Strike_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111022.mp3{/audio} Download Protests in West Papua, Indonesia, have led to the temporary closures at the world’s largest gold and copper mine. On strike for the second m...
  • Pakistanis Need More International Aid to Fight Malnutrition

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_221011/Pakistan_Malnutrition_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111022.mp3{/audio} Download More than one third of Pakistanis are malnourished, according to a recent report from the British charity Oxfam. The group found Pakistan among...
  • The Other Face of China – Hui Muslims

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_221011/China_Hui_Muslim_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111022.mp3{/audio} Download China's economic miracle no longer needs any special introduction. But images of the booming coastal cities are hardly a true reflection of its ethnic d...
  • Cambodia Bans Sending Maids to Malaysia

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_221011/Cambodia_Maids_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111022.mp3{/audio} Download Cambodia has followed Indonesians lead and imposed a temporary ban on sending domestic workers to Malaysia. The Prime Minister, Hun Sen, signed the order ...
  • Deaf? No Problem!

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_221011/Indonesia_Miss_Deaf_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111022.mp3{/audio} Download Indonesian Dian Inggrawati is one of this year’s Miss Deaf Worlds. It’s the first time the country has won the international event. 27-year old...
  • Burma's Comedian Released from Jail

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_151011/Burma_Prison_Release_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111015.mp3{/audio} Download Burma has begun releasing people from the country's jails as part of a mass amnesty. So far, around 200 political prisoners, including some high-pro...
  • India Encephalitis Outbreak Kills Hundreds of Children

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_151011/India_Enchephalitis_Outbreak_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111015.mp3{/audio} Download More than 400 people, mainly children, have died in an outbreak of viral encephalitis in northern India. This “brain fever” is a mosquito...
  • Revolution’s Pioneer Celebrated in China

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_151011/China_Xinhai_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111015.mp3{/audio} Download The father of the nation, a pioneer of China’s revolution, a selfless politician, a man of the world. These are just some of the ways China remembers Sun ...
  • BoeungKak Lake Activists Fear Violence, Arrests

    {audio}/images/podcast/Data_151011/Cambodia_Lake_Violence_FINAL_bhs_inggris_111015.mp3{/audio} Download After intense pressure from the World Bank, the Cambodian government granted a thousand families facing eviction on a lake in the centre of the capi...